Notice Information
Notice Title
Support for Malawi's National Maths Curriculum Reform
Notice Description
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) anticipates running a competitive procurement for a programme to continue our support for Malawi's National Maths Curriculum Reform. The UK has supported the Government of Malawi over the last five years to develop a new maths curriculum that can be implemented through a structured pedagogy approach that uses workbooks to guide lessons. This is now being rolled out at national scale in every primary school in Malawi alongside reforms supported by other development partners which all aim to tackle the crisis in foundational learning. FCDO anticipates continuing our support to complete the scale-up of this reform across the first four grades of primary school and embedding the change in how maths is taught over the next five years, as well as Technical Assistance to support foundational learning systems strengthening reforms under Ministry of Education leadership. This is component 1 of a new Education Business Case called "Maziko A Maphunziro"
Lot Information
Lot 1
This programme will build on the success of the current support and deliver four (4) overarching capabilities as detailed below: 1. Complete the scale-up of the reform through to the 4th year of primary school (standard 4). 2. Provide ongoing coaching and training to ensure the reform sticks given high teacher turnover. government-led reform in a resource-scarce context. 3. Ensure student teachers learn the new maths curriculum in the teacher training colleges. 4. Ensure the continued procurement and distribution of the workbooks underpinning this reform.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04c018
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/038146-2024
- Current Stage
- Planning
- All Stages
- Planning
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Planning Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Not Specified
- Procurement Method Details
- Not specified
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
75 - Administration, defence and social security services
80 - Education and training services
-
- CPV Codes
75211200 - Foreign economic-aid-related services
80100000 - Primary education services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £28,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 26 Nov 20241 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- 27 Apr 2025Expired
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Planned
- Lots Status
- Planned
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- FOREIGN COMMONWEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE
- Contact Name
- Gayle Gore
- Contact Email
- gayle.gore@fcdo.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- +44 2070080932
Buyer Location
- Locality
- EAST KILBRIDE
- Postcode
- G75 8EA
- Post Town
- Glasgow
- Country
- Scotland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLM Scotland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLM9 Southern Scotland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLM95 South Lanarkshire
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Electoral Ward
- East Kilbride West
- Westminster Constituency
- East Kilbride and Strathaven
Further Information
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